Recap Report

Recap Report

This is a recap report on the quotes I have found from my research on animation. I have picked one quote from each of my five articles to go into detail about as they are interesting and relate to the topic I am studying.

The first quote I am going to talk about is sourced from the BBC News archives and it was first published in 2003. The article is about why Pixar has become so successful in the short amount of time the studios have been active. One interesting quote from the article reads “Pixar's reputation as the Midas of animation looks in no danger of disappearing.” This shows how good their films are because with every film up to the point of this article, every film was very successful. It is saying that everything they touched turned to gold. This comes from the word “Midas”. They have had great success from their first film “Toy Story” (1995) and this was when animation changed from 2D characters to CGI 3D characters. This then changed animation forever as every studio then picked up the new technology as it was advancing in so many ways. Also they have also beaten off other contenders like DreamWorks to become the best animation studio. The reason for this is that they have had the very successful “Toy Story” franchise and have had very strong stories and they were the pioneers of the CGI technology used now in mostly every animation made film.

My second quote is from the guardian online website. The article focuses on why Pixar is an important studio and how it has changed animation. The quote from the article reads: “How one studio has maintained such incomparably high quality control remains intriguing.” This tells us that everything out of the studio has been a success. The real success of this studio was from the first use of CGI and the Toy Story film and franchise. Also everyone likes an animated film as they are very family friendly and children love them. They are good as every person can watch one of them. They also add humour and they are really good stories and also a good way of escapism for some people. Also the films are good for gags and their comedy. The reviews they get for each film are also very good and the amount of quality it has for a studio that only started out properly in 1995.

A third quote that I have found is a quote on how Pixar put so much detail into their characters. The article is from an online website called c net and goes into detail about the stages Pixar go through in designing characters and the animation for them. The quote reads: “For years, Pixar's animators, and their technical counterparts, have looked for ways to push the envelope of what's technologically possible in an animated film.” The quote is saying that for every film Pixar create, the animators will push the boundaries of every film and use the latest technology to produce them films. Since Pixar’s first film Toy Story, you can see a difference in the way the films have been made. The films have a lot more colour and a the characters and environments look very real for example Sully off “Monsters Inc.” (2001), the Pixar animators spent days working on the fur but now look at the film “Monsters University” (2013), the animators have had to completely rewrite the programmes on how they do the fur on him as technology has advanced in over a decade since the first one was made. Also with the first “Toy Story” film, you can see technological advances as if you compare it with the most recent film “Toy Story 3” (2010), You can see better colours and more detail in the characters as with the first film if you look at the t-shirts are still and have no creases in. Even in “Finding Nemo” (2003), they had to make it look like real water with the lighting and the bubbles and the swaying of the coral. Even in the film “Up” (2009), they had to make the animation of over 300 balloons look real.